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 206 SPENCER — SPTKIE. supporter of the popular cause. He m. in or before 1617, Penelope, 1st da. of Henry (Wkiotheslkv), 1st Einx op Southampton, liy Elizabeth, da. of John Vkrnos, of Hodnet. He rf. 19 and was bur. 27 Dec. 1630, at liringtou, in his 45th year, M.I. Willpr. 1637. His widow if. (31 years later) 16 July aud was 4k?-. Not. 1667, as afsd. III. 1G37. 3. Heskt (Spencer), Baron Spencer of Wormleigh- ton, s. and h., 4. at Althorp, and bap. 23 Nov. 1020, at Brington. He was cr. S Juue 1643, EARL OF SUNDERLAND j see that title. SPIDDALL. See " Morris op SpiddaiX, co. Gahvuy," Barony (Morris) cr. 1889 for life. SPYNIE. Barony [S.] 1. Sm Alexander Lindsay, of Spynia, 4th s. I 1,t90 ol (Lindsay). Eaui. op Crawford [S.], by Margaret, da. or ' (P r,,b,lW y 'Hegit) 01 David Hf.thune, Cardinal Archbishop of St. ircio Andrews, was b. about 1555. ( a ) He was a Geut. of the Chamber !•_>. _. to James VI. [S.] whom he accompanied on his matrimonial expedi- tion into Denmark in 1589, from whom he received, 6 May 1590 (being then Vice Chamberlain) a grant of lands, late belonging to the suppressed Bishopric of Moray, which were erected into a (res Barony( b ) with rem. to his heirs and assigns, becoming thus; c ) LOUD SPVNIE [S.]. being knighted and invested iu that dignity, 4 Nov. following,^) taking his seat in Pari., 6 Aug. 1591, anil there tanked as " lowest of the hereditary Lords of I'arl "C 1 ) In 1092 he was a Lord of the Articles for the Nobility [S.J In 1592 an Act was passed confirming the grant of 1590 in which the Barony "f Spynia is expressly called a Lordship of Pari. [S.] and, together with the lands, is entailed on the said "Alexander, Lord Spynie, and Dame Jane Lyon, Countess of Angus, his spouse, ami the longest liver of them, and to the heirs lawfully begotten or to be begotten betwixt then) icnoni failing to the nearest lawful heirs male of Alexander."^') The same lands and dignity were also panted by another charter, 17 April 1593, with the same destination. P.C. [8.], taking his seat, S July 1001. At the "decreet of rank- ing" in IfiOfi he was placed next below Lord [Maitland of] Thirleetana [S.J, a peerage cr. in May 1590. He m.,( ! ) probably about 1589, aiul certainly before April 1593, ( a ) He is included in the Crawford entail of 24 March 1561, and is often spoken of as the youngest son, but there seems to be evidence that Sir James Lindsay, a noted Catholic, was his brother, who, if so, must have been younger, and have been bora after the entail of 1564. [i'x. inform. W. A. Lindsay, Windsor Herald.) ( b ) See vol. iv, p. 247, note "a," sub " Holyroodhouse," as to the rands of dis- solved religious houses being erected into temporal peerages. ( c ) "That grant was subsequent to the noted Act, 1587, by which the ordinary or lesser Barons were excluded fioui a hereditary seat iu Pari. . . . while the words title, honour, and rank of a free Baron . . . were technically applied ex tunc in reference to, and descriptive of, a great Baron or Peer or hereditary Lord of Pari, as proved in various instances." [Itiddell, p. 655.] (4) " Riddell," pp. 654—707, where the whole matter of the creation and limita- tion of this peerage is fully discussed. ( e ) "Hewlett," where it is added, "This Act could scarcely in law be held to affect the dignity previously granted, but (1) if it could, it entailed it upon the heirs of body of Alexander, by bis then wife, and, failing such issue, to his heirs male ; (2) if it did not affect the dignity previously conferred, it created a new dignity with the same name of honour in favour of the heirs of Alexander men- tioned in the Act." ( r ) On the proposal of this marriage, James VI. [S.J facetiously wrote to him, " Mind Jean Lyon, for her auld tout will make you a new born!*' She appears to have been " a favourite " with that King, who wrote to her that he intended to advance "this mann of myne " [Lord SpyuieJ " to the ranke [i.e., that of an Earl- dom], that ye was last joyned with." [" Hiddell," p. 054.J